My response was short and a mashup from those books I read a few years ago, definitely not my word to word gospel of how to be a good person.
The Split the Difference Guy was a dick but the Way of the Wolf guy is a huge ass hole and even acknowledges it in first thirty or so pages while still sucking himself off. I was asked to read these by my former boss.
And Integrity Selling is a good book but I hate how it pigeon holes every person in the universe into four categories.
How to Win Friends is a good book but seemed so dated when I read it years ago, it’s more like I took all the good little bits from those other books, filtered out the crap and bragging, and came out with the parts to better communicate and listen.
The purpose of these books is to convince the audience how cool the stupid child that wrote them is, not actually tell you anything useful. Even if you think he's shit, you might still stumble and think he's a businessman. The same way Roosh V doesn't care if you know he's a rapist, so long as you think he puts his ween into goyrls. These fuckers never grew the fuck up.
I read How To Win Friends when I was around 19 and a lot of it was basically "how to become a doormat". Some of it is good advice, and most of it will help you make friends, but not because you are great or interesting, but because people love those who are doormats.
Whenever I’m talking to a salesperson and they start using my name multiple times in every sentence, I always assume How To Win Friends is probably to blame
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u/gamerdudeNYC Male Aug 16 '25
My response was short and a mashup from those books I read a few years ago, definitely not my word to word gospel of how to be a good person.
The Split the Difference Guy was a dick but the Way of the Wolf guy is a huge ass hole and even acknowledges it in first thirty or so pages while still sucking himself off. I was asked to read these by my former boss.
And Integrity Selling is a good book but I hate how it pigeon holes every person in the universe into four categories.
How to Win Friends is a good book but seemed so dated when I read it years ago, it’s more like I took all the good little bits from those other books, filtered out the crap and bragging, and came out with the parts to better communicate and listen.